Where Six Become One

You have a bond of friendship that just naturally comes that when you’re that close together, it’s just something that comes out of you, you can’t explain why because you’re depending on him and he’s depending on you. I mean if he’s loading a gun and he’s firing it and I’m giving the orders, we got to listen, there’s no back talking or anything like that, you know, we know we got to do it and we’re there to do it and you just click together as one. And where you live together and you go get a shave or something like that; don’t throw that water away, I’ll use the same water. You mold into a, not six men on a gun, actually there’s only one. You mold together like that yah. And whatever you’ve got, you shared. You got a little extra sometime, you got something from home. There was lots of Hershey chocolate bars over there, the Americans, the Hershey bars come with the American rations, we were all on American rations. Plenty of cigarettes and stuff like that. You never had much, shall we say, bartering from each other because everybody had the same rations, shall we say. And when I got out of my little bunk I had made well the other fellow was waiting to get in it, you know what I mean.